Is there such a thing as a Christian?

I had a friend pass 2 weeks ago and his funeral was at a baptist church. The second I heard it was at this baptist church I immediately knew to brace myself.

Baptist are the worst Christians in my opinion. They have the most "hate for their neighbors" and the least respect for others beliefs.

So of course the preacher tried to use the funeral service, and my friends death, to try and convert everyone in the audience. First of all, if my friend was a Christian then he would have friends from all religions. So these friends had to sit through a message from this guy about Jesus being our one and only savior, the guy even had the nerve to ask us to raise our hands if we believed in Jesus. He then said "to all of you out there who did not raise your hands, will you find one of the people that did and ask them about Jesus."

This isnt the first time that the baptist have shocked me. It just makes me have no hope for those kind of people that call themselves Christians, but still have so much hate.

The preachers wife, the night before the funeral at the viewing, was talking to one of my friends, mike, and they got into a discussion about Jesus and he told her he did not believe he died for our sins and she went on to say that he would rape her 3 year old daughter because he doesn't have any moral due to the fact he doesn't worship Jesus.

thats a joke. An atheist could be a better person and have more values than a Chirstian can.

 

I seem to remember you making this statement before. Could you point out this remarkable person?

 

Funeral sermons can be awkward. I had a friend whose daughter died of leukemia. The preacher chose the passage in Scripture where Jesus brought Jairus' daughter back from the dead, leaving everybody wondering whether there was going to be a similar raising at the funeral, and if not, why not?

 

That's a good example of how symbolic religion is, and that if left in it's world of symbolism and metaphor to what we know of life, it can be beneficial. In other words, it's silly if anyone were to really wonder those things hearing that passage.

 

No He was this transient I met in Chico.


I think his name was Jeff or something.

 

yeah this guy talked about Lazarus raising from the dead....

he said "jesus stuck out his hand and said Lazarus rise, because you know if he didnt say his name then everyone in there would have rose too."

I dont know where this guy gets his info.

 

My grandfather had a humanitarian service, and the women speaking still 'tried' to talk about Jesus, she alluded to it

the roses that had been placed on my his coffin then fell off, just as she started. She then stopped. It was funny and everybody laughed.

 

its always funny when shit happens like that in serious moments.

 

Heeh:

This is where we can agree perhaps that idea, if not apart from all eventuality, is at least something in part always subject to itself, ie. it is eventuality to all practical purposes.

thedope:

lol

thedope is definitely a philosopher, --- let it always be said that he wanted to see everything in its best light,
and more, that he did, and even more, that there's no need to say it, as he still happens to be here lending his own!

We're all light benders. There is no negative space! Just endless form! I have to be a poet today, for how could anyone possibly agree with my terms?! lol

 

Evolutionary theory doesn't produce evidence, it accounts for it. The common anscestor of plants and animals would be a protoplasmal, primordial, atomic globule which is not likely to be preserved in the fossil record, but there is circumstantial evidence for it; see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=universal-common-ancestor
And though in a sense all theories are matters of opinions, some are supported by far more evidence than others. Protozoans such as Euglena rostrifera have characteristics of both plants and animals. Do we need to find a talking snake to prove the account in Genesis?

 

maybe the snake was a race of people

 

Or a metaphor for curiosity.

 

What is it with you and talking snakes?

 

A snake transmitted messages to my mind, but I don't think he was talking. He mineaswell tho.

 

It said I need to ejaculate.

 

silly thread.

 

Wow jeeze thanks for the input! So enlightening on the subject......

 

Well Jeeze thank you.

 

Oh man you just never end with the reason.

 

yeah cause the ejaculation comment was very enlightening.